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What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ed in helping small farmers maintain their land rights and in opposing big business. She was murdered for her efforts. Another factor for the choice of the Amazon was that the Catholic Church is rapidly losing market share to evangelical Protestants there. Given that it hasn’t respected the local culture when it comes to church matters, this is not unexpected. Many parishes in the millions of square kilometers see a priest for Eucharist and Confes…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…o Professor John Kline, a Georgetown University Professor of International Business Diplomacy, Nike has expressed its commitment to decent wages. However, the company does not compensate its subcontractors enough to pay a living wage. In fact, Nike workers earn $3.50 a day in Indonesia. That’s not enough to purchase a gallon of milk there! It barely buys a Big Mac! Today no one can claim ignorance. Workers have journeyed to the U.S. to give gut-wr…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…een forgiven; those around him say that his ministry is proof of this. The business of calling people ‘terrorists’ probably stems from being convinced, to the utmost degree, that you are right. However, I prefer the idea of God tendered by Karl Barth, who refers to him as the ‘divine incognito.’ Barth writes that ‘God is the unknown God, and, precisely because he is unknown, he bestows life and breath and all things. Therefore the power of God can…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…ird floor office. No one answered. It did not appear to be doing a booming business, or any kind of business at all. Be’ad Chaim’s website has a section on “Abortion in Jewish Thought,” which links to just one 2007 article quoting the Chief Rabbinate on the performing of abortions when the mother’s health is not in danger: “The rabbis believe that these types of abortions are a grave sin which may even delay the coming of the messiah.” Which of co…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…onization soars, remaining relatively high right through the 1960s; 7. Big business pushes back hard, flouting labor laws and hiring union-busting consultants to achieve “competitiveness” and “flexibility” during the 1970s and 1980s; business easily breaks the backs of the industrial unions by exercising the option to move production overseas; 8. With the labor movement now all but destroyed, we are back to servile acceptance of unfair, unjust pra…

From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth

By Gustavo Maya

…To his shock, it wasn’t. Kinzer observed that the “social conservative-Big Business coalition politics was frayed to the breaking point.” He goes on: It was disorienting. I had conversations with people I felt I had carried a lot of water for and considered friends at a deep political level, who, in very public, very aggressive ways, were trying to undermine some fairly benign religious liberty protections. Kinzer is served up as an example of the…

Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…God only knows what they’ll do with it. Rabbi Dov Manischewitz founded the business in 1888. At the time, matzo-baking was a laborious affair, further complicated by the halakhic stipulation that a matzo had to be made within 18 minutes. Rabbi Dov, however, figured out a way to mechanize the process and keep it kosher, making him the Henry Ford of the matzo business, although presumably without the antisemitism. Eventually the company branched out…

Taxpayers Cannot Be Forced to Fund Churches—Even in a Pandemic

By Andrew L. Seidel

…iberty of every American. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: the Small Business Administration can put in place rules to ensure that the Constitution is not violated. As a number of secular groups pointed out to the SBA this week, those rules are already in place. For instance, “businesses principally engaged in teaching, instructing, counseling or indoctrinating religion or religious beliefs, whether in a religious or secular setting” are ine…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…back to its authentic birthright as the immigration-friendly party of Big Business—may be complicated by more than just the hilarity (already picked up on by Trump) of his concealed affair with an Argentinian paramour. Sanford’s affair, we recall, gave “hiking the Appalachian Trail” a whole new meaning. But as Kate Storey’s excellent reporting in Esquire points out, Sanford also has a long history with the shady global “Christian” network known a…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…Rich Iott is one of the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel people I know. We are business partners and very close personal friends. One of the first things I explained to Rich when we started working together was that I don’t work on Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath. He said, “That’s great, I’m glad you take a break every week and spend quality time with your family!” . . . . Rich has been an overnight guest in our Kosher home, his wife Chris, and their ch…